My parents were with us for 2.5 weeks for their holidays. Yvonne and I took a few days off to spend time with them, and be there with the whole family. Their stay has been great, if not very tiring for there has been many activities, daily! Indeed we visited the swimming pool (several times), Marina Barrage (several times), the zoo, Changi Point Coastal walk, Botanical garden for outdoor concerts, Jacob Ballas’ children garden, Bugis, Our downstairs playground (MANY times), etc… Below are some shots from these activities.

It’s getting more and more tiring to look after the kids, Tristan in particular. Because he seems to have endless energy and has started to just like running as far and fast as he can. In some instances, he will simply run loops around the playground, which is fine. In other cases however, he might charge straight ahead, wherever ahead may be, and that means we must chase after him to prevent him for getting into an accident. The chase is exhausting, as my Dad can testify! :p

This had not been helped by the fact that this month has been VERY hot in Singapore. Just yesterday we hit 37 deg Celsius, with 32 IN the house. We (well I, mostly and Celestine too) are literally dripping sweat drops just sitting around, doing nothing. Sadly we were not doing nothing, refer to the chasing above :/ .

On top of all these activities, we had planned several food pit stops for my parents (hey, of course, this is Singapore after all), including a Curry Fish Head (that even my mom has loved), pratas, Breakfast at Yakun (for runny eggs, kaya toast and local kopi), and a local Chinese restaurant.

Furthermore, we have celebrated a little early the kids’ second birthday. The whole family was there, and we managed to take a nice pic of everyone. The kids had many new toys and soft toys. I am very much for low tech toys (non mechanical, non electrical toys). So this year, they had several wood-based toys. Yvonne is fond of saying they are actually for me (which, I must admit, is a little bit true :p).

Finally, below are the customary portrait pics of Tristan and Celestine so we can all agree that they still are the cutest babies in the whole wide world!! Yes, that’s true! Who says I am blinded by fatherly love? That is only an obvious, perfectly objective, unquestionable truth I’m reporting…

Ha, lastly, having my parents around, meant that there are more photographers around. Inevitably, I ended up on some photos, like this one below.

Till next time! Hopefully the next update won’t take as long as this one.

PS: pending grammar review by Yvonne, please ignore the English mistakes :p.